Construction of buildings



(No Model.)

R. S. PEARSALL.

CONSTRUCTION 0F BUILDINGS.

110. 311,031. Patented Jan. 20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEO RICHARD S. IEARSAIIL, OF SEA CLIFF, NE\V YORK.

CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,031, dated January 20 1885.

I Application filed July 10, 1854. (No model.)

To all whom it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD S. PEARSALL, of Sea Cliff, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Buildings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the construction of dwelling-houses and other buildings; and the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a part of a building constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View of the same, taken on the line x 00 ofFig. 1.

The walls A A and the lower floor, B, of the building rest upon the foundation 0. The walls A A are made up of the timbers a a, a a set on end and close together upon the foundation O. The timbers a a are by preference set slightly out from the timbers a, so as to hide in a measure the joints between the timbers, and the timbers a a a, a are by preference correspondingly grooved, as shown at b, to receive the strips 0, which key the timbers together and prevent all edgewise movement of the said timbers.

The floors B are composed of the timbers d d, which are about the same size in crosssection as the vertical timbers composing the walls of thebuilding, and those of the lower floor are placed edgewise and close together upon the foundation 0. The vertical timbers a are cutaway or mortised, as shown in dotted lines at c, Fig. 1, to receive the ends f of the floor-ti1nbers d, and the timbers a are slightly notched, as shown at e, to receive the ends of the floor-timbers d, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, so that the ends of the floor-timbers are entirely concealed by the notches or mortises of the vertical timbers overlapping them.

The upper floor, B, is made the same as the lower floor, with the ends of the joists resting in the deep and shallow mortises e e, and the timbers d may be nailed to the timbers d, as shown in Fig. 1.

In order to stiffen the structure and prevent all danger of opposite vertical walls spreading away from each other, I design in most cases to pass the tie-rod E through the upright timbers a, andthrough the floor-timbers d, and to draw the timbers in the wall and floor firmly together, so that there will be no lateral movement of any of the timbers, by means of a heavy nut, i, placed upon the rod, as will be understood from Fig. 2. The rafters, F, composing't-he roof of the building are also of about the same size in cross-section as the timbers composing the floors B D, and they are jointed to the upper ends of the timbers a a, so as to stand eclgewise and close together, forming a solid and complete roof; and in some cases I design to use rubber or other packing between the rafters to prevent all possible entrance of water to the building. The timbers a a are not in this instance mortised in any manner, but are plain timbers placed together and nailed, and by preference held by the tie-rod G, which is in all respects like the tie-rod E, above described. The inner edges of the timbers a a a a form continuous surfaces, which may be lathed and plastered, wainscoted, or finished in any desirable manner. a

At the corners of the building the space between the timbers a a is filled to form a full and perfect corner by thetimbers J, of different widths,built into the space, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

Constructed in the manner described,it will be seen that the house so made is very strong and tight, and that it can be very easily and quickly and cheaply built, and by makingthe walls A of thin wide stuff, placed with the wide surfaces together, the walls maybe made Very thick, and the timbers (being thin) will not warp away from each other and leave openings in the walls, and by the use of thin stuff no difficulty will be experienced in put tingup the walls in drawing the timbers together throughout to make perfectly-tight joints between the adjacent surfaces of the timbers.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The timbers a a, mortised to receive the ICO the timbers a of, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The combination, with the vertical timbers a a a a of the pieces J, of different I 5 widths,built in at the corners of the building, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

RICHARD S. PEARSALL.

Witnesses:

J OHN T. PIRIE, JOHN H. BIOQUILLAN. 

